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When her Japanese-American husband was sent to internment camps in California and Wyoming, Estelle Peck Ishigo chose to accompany him. An art-school teacher fired for her interracial marriage, she documented the three-and-a-half-year ordeal in <a href="http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6290111f/?order=2&brand=jarda">a short memoir</a> and hundreds of <a href="http://www.janm.org/collections/estelle-ishigo-collection/">sketches</a> and <a href="http://content.cdlib.org/search?facet=type-tab&relation=calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu&style=cui&keyword=estelle+ishigo&x=0&y=0">paintings</a>. <br /><br />Despite a brief flurry of interest in her art in the early 1970s, Estelle faded again into obscurity until discovered by filmmaker Steven Okazaki wasting away in a Hollywood convalescent hospital.<blockquote>Unwilling to accept the hospital director's claim that she was insane, Okazaki persevered, and as he suspected, found her heavily medicated but able to comprehend what he wanted. "I've been waiting for someone to tell my story to," she said. "Then I can die." </blockquote>Okazaki told Estelle's story in his 1990 film, <em><a href="http://www.amdoc.org/projects/truelives/pg_daysofwaiting.html">Days of Waiting</a></em>, which won both an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject and a Peabody Award. She died before a screening could be arranged. <small>[<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/73806/Japanese-American-Relocation-Digital-Archives#2207043">previously</a>]</small>post:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.77851Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:11:15 -0800KnappsterEstelleIshigoJapaneseAmericanNiseiWorldWarIIartistsdocumentariesinternmentinternmentcampsBy: Rumplehttp://www.metafilter.com/77851/Under-the-sky-and-over-the-whole-Earth-the-Human-race-is-only-one#2393893
Wonderful - thank you.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.77851-2393893Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:37:03 -0800RumpleBy: cybercoitus interruptushttp://www.metafilter.com/77851/Under-the-sky-and-over-the-whole-Earth-the-Human-race-is-only-one#2393907
p. 4, "His master could find no one who would keep this little dog - because his master was Japanese.
"He could not be left alone in the empty house to starve.
"So, they took him out for one last walk - to a veterinary. . . ."
Aw, man.
Haven't read it all yet but what a great story and resource. Thank you.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.77851-2393907Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:04:47 -0800cybercoitus interruptusBy: Fuzzy Skinnerhttp://www.metafilter.com/77851/Under-the-sky-and-over-the-whole-Earth-the-Human-race-is-only-one#2393926
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/iurEpT5g7EL1DxLg5WRxJA?">Heart Mountain Camp today.</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.77851-2393926Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:51:31 -0800Fuzzy SkinnerBy: wemayfreezehttp://www.metafilter.com/77851/Under-the-sky-and-over-the-whole-Earth-the-Human-race-is-only-one#2393939
This stuff is incredible, thanks.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.77851-2393939Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:24:06 -0800wemayfreezeBy: Knappsterhttp://www.metafilter.com/77851/Under-the-sky-and-over-the-whole-Earth-the-Human-race-is-only-one#2393955
I didn't link to it directly, but there is some amazing stuff in <a href="http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/search?facet=type-tab&relation=calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu&keyword=estelle%20ishigo&x=0&y=0&style=cui&group=text">this collection of textual records</a>. Estelle <a href="http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb4h4nb606/?query=estelle%20ishigo&brand=calisphere">lobbied</a> for "more equable laws" regarding interracial marriages after she was <a href="http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb4779p263/?query=estelle%20ishigo&brand=calisphere">denied compensation</a> under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-American_Claims_Act">Evacuation Claims Act</a>.
She never bought the government's line that it was interning the Nisei for their own protection. Her short story "<a href="http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6d5nb7p0/?order=1&brand=calisphere">To Protect the Innocent</a>" ends, "Cultivated prejudice breeds sophisticated ignorance, corrupt education and hypocracy [<em>sic</em>]. Society thus contaminated pretends to protect the innocent, making beggars, slaves and death."comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.77851-2393955Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:19:01 -0800KnappsterBy: footnotehttp://www.metafilter.com/77851/Under-the-sky-and-over-the-whole-Earth-the-Human-race-is-only-one#2394688
Look at <a href="http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6c6010gn/?query=estelle%20ishigo&brand=calisphere">this </a>one.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.77851-2394688Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:20:08 -0800footnote